Over 100 MQM offices demolished in Karachi, says minister

KARACHI: A Sindh government minister says authorities in Karachi have demolished over 100 offices of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) whose leader spoke from self-imposed exile against Pakistan last month.

Jam Khan, the provincial minister for local government, says Tuesday’s action against MQM was launched after last month’s speech by the movement’s leader, Altaf Hussain from London, in which he incited supporters to violence.

Hussain’s followers subsequently attacked TV stations in Karachi and clashes with the police left one person dead.

Khan says the ongoing crackdown is not just “MQM specific” and that any illegal offices of other political parties will also be shuttered. –AP